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Finance Discovers Sting: "How Fragile We Are"

Financial MarketsMoney and BanksU.S. EconomyInterventionism

05/27/2023Mises Media
Despite the soothing hot air from the White House and Fed officials, the financial system is becoming increasingly fragile and unstable. Maybe all of that intervention the past decade was not wise.
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The Lure of a Stable Price Level

U.S. HistoryBusiness CyclesPrices

05/27/2023Mises Daily Articles
The siren song of a stable price level has lured leading politicians and economists as early as 1911.
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Progressives Want to Eliminate Wealthy Entrepreneurs but Need the Wealth They Create

Big GovernmentMedia and CultureProgressivismSocialismEntrepreneurship

05/27/2023Mises Media
Modern culture is biased against those that are rich even while depending upon the wealth that successful entrepreneurs have created.
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Rothbard’s Button Doesn’t Exist, but It Needs to Be Invented

Bureaucracy and RegulationEconomic FreedomEuropeThe Police StateWar and Foreign PolicyWorld History

05/26/2023Mises Media
In 1948, Ludwig Erhardt rescued a German economy that was in shambles simply by invoking free markets and currency reform. Our economy needs its Rothbard moment.
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Is There an Optimum Growth Rate of Money?

InflationMonetary PolicyInterventionismMonetary TheoryMoney and Banking

05/26/2023Mises Media
Monetarists believe there is an optimum growth rate of money. However, a fiat money system itself is unstable, so there is no optimum growth rate.
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Socialism, Minority Groups, and Personal Liberties

Media and CultureProgressivismProperty RightsSocialism

05/25/2023Mises Media
People from socially and economically marginized groups in the USA tend to support socialism. Yet socialists have a long and bloody history of suppressing these very groups.
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Comprehensive Reform versus Piecemeal Reform

Decentralization and SecessionDemocracyHayekPoliticsU.S. History

05/25/2023Mises Media
Should political reform be the result of a much-discussed comprehensive plan? Or should it come about through decentralized decision-making that deals with the situations at hand?
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Did Tucker's Last Major Guest Lead to His Firing?

AntipoliticsDemocracyPoliticsThe Police State

05/24/2023Mises Media
Tucker Carlson has rankled the ruling elites for many years. But was his interview with Robert Kennedy Jr. a bridge too far?
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The Fed Is Overindebted, Isn’t It?

Economic PolicyThe FedMoney and BanksStrategyU.S. Economy

05/24/2023Mises Media
By any conventional measures of finance, the Federal Reserve has negative equity. In the long run, cooking the books only puts off the day of reckoning.
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Was Japanese Colonialism the Engine of Later Prosperity for Korea and Taiwan? Probably Not

CapitalismThe EntrepreneurWorld History

05/23/2023Mises Media
While Japan made some technological transfers to these places, prosperity came to them later, with the advent of free-market economies.
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